Romans 9:6 Cross References - Riverside

⁶ Not that God's word has failed. For not all who are of Israel are Israel;

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said, "See, here is a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came Gods — and the authority of Scripture cannot be denied —

²⁸ For it is not he who is one outwardly that is a Jew, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. ²⁹ But he who is one secretly is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart and in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not from men, but from God.

³ For what if some were faithless, will their faithlessness prevent the faithfulness of God?

¹² and the father of the circumcised, that is, of those who are not only circumcised, but who walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while uncircumcised. ¹³ It was not through the Law that the promise came to Abraham or to his descendants that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is emptied of value and the promise is nullified. ¹⁵ For the Law works wrath. But where there is no law, neither is there lawbreaking. ¹⁶ Therefore all depends on faith, that it may be of grace, and thus the promise be sure for all his descendants, not only those who are of the Law, but also those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us

¹ I SAY then, can it be that God has repudiated his people? Never. For I am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not repudiated his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he prays to God against Israel?

¹⁶ All who walk by this rule — may peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God!

¹³ if we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he cannot disown himself."

¹⁷ In this case God being abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable purpose of his will gave the surety of an oath, ¹⁸ that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to be false, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled to lay hold on the hope that lies before us.